Vision & Mission

The Mahatma Gandhi Center for Peace Studies is an integral part of the Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global (Institution of Eminence Deemed To Be University) (JGU). JGU is a leading academic organization dedicated to promoting the philosophy of nonviolence and advancing peace studies nationally and globally. The Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies is committed towards enhancing research and developing knowledge in relation to all aspects of nonviolence and peace. The center conducts research and teaching that targets the reduction of violence in our world. It does so by developing the principles and practices of Gandhian nonviolence and by providing profound knowledge and understanding of the history and theory of nonviolence to students, scholars and all those who can positively contribute to spreading peace in the world. With the aim of establishing a value based research institute with global ambitions and capabilities, the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies will strive to promote interdisciplinary studies in broad areas like conflictology, cultures of peace, mediation, and management of peace among others. The center hopes to build a global culture of peace in a world plagued by excessive violence.

Objectives

• To expand and strengthen the links between practitioners of nonviolence and reserachers from prestigious universities.
• To establish contacts and collaborate with peace research institutes from different countries around the world.
• To train students, civic actors and political and economic decision makers in all applications of nonviolence and peace (social, political, international, armed conflicts and corporate life).
• To facilitates internships, conferences and seminars and the development of research programs on the subject matter
• To bring together the largest network of people working to promote peace in today’s world.

Students for Peace:

Students will initiate and contribute to, both theoretical and practical endeavors towards a more peaceful society: They take concrete steps to instill their own education with the ideals of peace, by:

• Encouraging their university/school to introduce courses primarily concerned with or related to peace.
• Demanding that the university/school invite people working towards peace to address them and their fellow students, in order to initiate and nurture a university wide discourse on Peace.
• They organize and participate in workshops, organized at local and international levels, on themes related to peace, generating empathy and mutual understanding.
• They take ownership of the society around them, as they discourage violence and promote peace in creative ways, which may include – street plays, organization of workshops, using peaceful means of protest for any cause they pursue, practicing and promoting peace among fellow students using both explicit actions and subliminal promotion of peace in their everyday lives.
• They undertake research and scholarship within areas of peace, including conflictology, cultures of peace, mediation, and management of peace among others.

These non-exhaustive steps along with a strong conviction and the motto –“Do Not Touch Peace” will allow SFP to re-ignite the dream and aspiration of living in a peaceful society. SFP is determined to work with passion and vigor to realize Gandhi’s vision of bringing peace and education into a mutually interacting and empowering relation and herding culture out of its, present, violent rut